The Walking Duds
Let me see if I got this straight:
Despite over 30 cases being thrown out of courts for lack of evidence, election fraud is real, but despite 14.1 million cases and over 276,000 deaths in the U.S., the coronavirus pandemic is not real.
OK, got it.
Now let’s take a look at the foundations those two beliefs are built on and we’ll start with election fraud. If you believe Donald Trump got cheated, then you also have to believe the following:
There was a nationwide conspiracy to commit election fraud.
The conspiracy included both Democrats and Republicans.
This bi-partisan conspiracy (so I guess those people can work together) included election officials, elected officials and the judges who have thrown Trump’s cases out of court.
And despite putting together a conspiracy that would make Dr. No proud, these evil geniuses neglected to steal any other offices – the only guy they wanted to cheat was Donald Trump.
If any of that seems irrational to you, throw away your MAGA hat, because if those things aren’t true, all you have is a sore loser who’s looking for any excuse to blame his loss on someone else. (For now we’ll ignore Trump using his election-fraud fantasy to raise money for himself and possibly run for president in 2024, but tomorrow’s another day.)
Now let’s turn our attention to the coronavirus. If you believe the COVID-19 pandemic is fake, then you also have to believe the following:
Politicians and people on social media know more about the coronavirus than doctors and scientists with expertise and experience in the field of infectious disease.
276,000 dead Americans are faking it.
So are doctors and scientists all over the world (maybe they had their conspiracy meeting at the same time the election fraudsters did) and you can throw in the 1.5 million people who have died globally.
You could also believe that those dead people have been misdiagnosed, which is more likely if you get your medical opinions from an actual doctor instead of someone with a Facebook account and a grudge.
I could go on, but I’m losing my will to live, or at least write.
Trusting people like Donald Trump – someone well-known for amateur lying before he ever got to the White House and joined the pro tour – has helped get us in the fix we’re currently in.
Trump has admitted “downplaying” the coronavirus even though he knew it was serious, told us it was no big deal, it would go away in springtime, we were “turning the corner” and once the election was over, nobody would talk about COVID again because it was just a hoax designed to harm his reelection chances.
If you’re keeping score, Trump has been wrong pretty much every step of the way and yet some people still believe him and that led to the cartoon at the top of the post.
I was reading a story about the election-fraud fantasy being hard to kill and that made me think of horror movies with hard-to-kill characters like Jason from Friday the 13th and Michael Myers from those Halloween movies, and from there I mentally moved on to vampires and zombies. (Yeah, this is the kind of stuff I spend the day thinking about.)
When I made it to zombies I thought about their fondness for eating brains and the cartoon came together.
You can’t use logic and come to the conclusion that the coronavirus is fake and election fraud is real, so the people who believe those things believe them just because Donald Trump told them to. Thoughtlessly following unscrupulous people is a bad idea and yet we have millions of Americans doing it.
That being the case, try not to get bitten or infected and for God’s sake, protect your brain, because some people appear to be in need of one.